Glenn's Pirates Page

Last Updated 18 February 2006

Thanks to all my friends for helping me with the
appearance and content of this web site. A special thanks to the
Pirate team offices for their assistance also. Glenn's Pirates
Page is a personal web page that I maintain to help record the
rich history of the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Team.Here is some information I have collected on the Pirates:

Pirate Hall of Fame Members: Review
a short biography on each Pirate Hall of Famer, his lifetime
statistics, and a photo of him and his Cooperstown plaque.

Other Pirate Greats: Here is a
list and short bio of great Pirate players through the years who haven't quite
made it to the Cooperstown Hall of Fame Page. There are 31
players who show up on the Pirates' Top 10 Records for hitting and
pitching, but are not in the Hall of Fame.

The Near Great Pirate Players:
These are the players who you remember from your childhood; they were
everyday players for the Bucs who were around for many years, but
they'll never be considered for Cooperstown. These are the "Near
Greats", but we remember them fondly.

An All-Time Pirate Line-Up: If
you want to see the fur fly among Bucco fans, have them try to
agree on an All-Time Line-up. I've provided a few
ideas here, but send me your own line-up cards too.

The 2003 Scouting Report: Check out the top prospects,
as reported by various news sources, for the Bucs throughout the Minors.

Fun Facts on Pittsburgh's ball
parks: What was the score of the first game at Forbes Field?
The answer is here. Plus lots of information and pictures from
Pittsburgh ballparks from Recreation Park to PNC Park.

Pirate Uniforms through the
years: the history of the Bucco uniform and photos are
located here. This was a fun page for me to put together. Do
you know when the Bucs adopted Black & Gold as their team colors?
The answer is here and much, much more, including the new uniforms
for 1997.

Bucco Odds and Ends:

Bucco Books: here's a partial
list of books available on the Bucs to help you compile your
summer reading list.

Bucco Victory Cries: all the
NL logos are here with a Bucco victory cry for each team. There
were many contributions for this page - Thanks!

A Tour of the Baseball Hall of Fame: A Pirates Perspective.
Use this page as a starting point for your own tour through Cooperstown. These are my
notes from my tour of the HoF in January 1999. If you look closely, Pirate displays
are all over the museum.

Boxscores: You can find boxscores many places; a few
sites are at ESPN, USA Today and Nando. See the
Pirate Links below for links to each
of these web sites.

Here are some commercial Baseball and Pirate links that I refer
to on a regular basis and are worth checking out:

The Official
Pirates Home Page: Get the latest news, game reports, and press releases.
The Regular Season schedule and Promotions are
here; Stop by the Pirate shop and pick up a few
items, or get ticket information.

ESPN:
They have an ESPN Pirates
Clubhouse Team Page that has quick updates on
the game in progress, plus links to some other team-specific info.
Their ESPN
Scoreboard is also a source for previews, post-game box scores and Recaps;
their new Game Tracker provides near-real time game broadcasts.

Sportsline (CBS)
has a Pirates page. They are an excellent source for a one page game summary
(line score, recap, and box score) off of their
Scoreboard.
Stats (sortable), Schedule, and Season game-by-game log.

MLB Insider
(Inside Pitch). A weekly wrap-up on the team. It is updated weekly (on Friday).

The
Sporting News: has a Pirates Page with regular updates (on Friday), a TRS
seating diagram and more.

Sports
Network: Pirate-specific news articles, in addition to individual stats, an injury report
and more.
Their best team information is in the
"Team
Directory": Ground Rules for TRS, Coaching history, and a list of Retired Numbers,
Hall of Famers, award winners, and season-by-season records.
Check out their in depth
game previews on the Scoreboard; it includes a pitcher's report card,
matchup, lineup, injuries,
weather, and odds.

Twin Killing,
The Bill Mazeroski Story; a web site by the author. The
site opens with an animated .gif of Maz turning the pivot at second,
includes a .wav file of a call of his Series-ending homer in '60, and
includes quotes, pictures and bios of the 23 players and coaches
interviewed in person for the book.

John
Skilton's Baseball Links has just about everything you could
want: stat sites, MLB teams, the Minors, College baseball,
International baseball, collectibles, newsgroups and more. This
is the best site to start your search for any web sites connected
with baseball. Glenn's Pirates Page was selected as the baseball link
of the week at John Skilton's Baseball Links July 6 - 12, 1997.

Card Collectors
Company: They have a reprint of the famous Honus Wagner card, plus
a book devoted to each team. The advertisers said, "This book
has pictures of all the regular issue cards made by TOPPS from
1952 thru 1986." It is advertised at $4. I received my copy and
it was well worth the cost. Each year has a couple paragraph summary of
the team and the team leaders. It has 1 1/4" by 1 3/4" reproductions of
the player baseball cards for each year. It sure brought back a lot of
memories for me.

Ballparks, by Munsey &
Suppes; they have put together a collection of information on all
current Major League Parks, plus information on some old Classic
parks (including Forbes Field) and the scoop on the future parks.

Baseball Immortals: by Lee Sinins;
examines the alltime greats of the game, and a few who have been excluded from Cooperstown.

The Minors: You can get a quick update from Pirateball on their
Bucco Farm Game Reports
Page. Russ Steele provides some quick
links to Baseball America's stats for each Bucco farm team and provides a window with
Wilbur Miller's Scouting Report.

Pacific Coast
League: Check out the Pirates Class AAA
team, The Nashville Sounds (at their official
site - see the player profiles). Follow the Sounds on Windows Media Player at
WNSR Radio.
Nashville
stats can be found at Pirateball (among other sites).
ESPN's schedule
provides links for box scores. ESPN also provides Sounds
batting
and pitching stats.
Check the local paper, The Tennessean for
articles in season.
Minor League Baseball Sounds
Web Site provides some information on the team.
The Sounds have been affiliated with the Bucs since 1998.
The current agreement extends through the 2004 season.

Eastern League: Check out the Pirates Class AA team, The
Altoona Curve. Altoona was awarded
a new franchise for the 1999 season. The Curve games are on Real Audio at
WPHB Radio.
Curve Stats are available at
Pirateball. ESPN provides
a Curve schedule with box score links.
The local newspaper, the Cambria News,
might provide some Curve coverage.
The Curve is named in honor of the famed "Horseshoe Curve" in the railroad tracks five miles
from the city of Altoona. The
Minor League Baseball Curve
Web Site provides some information on the team.
The Curve has been affiliated with the Bucs since the 1999 season.
The current agreement extends through the 2006 season.

South Atlantic League: Check out the Pirates Class A
team, the Hickory Crawdads
- a new affiliate for the Bucs in 1999.
The Crawdad games are on Windows Media Player at
WMNC Radio (FM 92.1).
Hickory Stats are available at
Pirateball.
USA Today provides Sally League
batting
and pitching
Stats, as well as box
scores.
The Crawdads have been affiliated with the Bucs since the 1999 season.
The current agreement extends through the 2002 season.

New York-Penn League: Check out the Pirates new Short Season Class A(-)
team the Williamsport
Crosscutters.
Check out daily stories, in season, at the Daily Item.
The Williamsport Sun-Gazette carries
Crosscutter stories also.
FanLink also provides a Williamsport team site.
Williamsport has been affiliated with the Bucs since 1999.
The current agreement extends through the 2004 season.
The NY-Penn League starts in mid-June
and features advanced rookies and some newly drafted college players.
USA Today has
Box
scores, and is a source for
batting
and pitching stats.

The Bucs also maintain working relationships with several
International Leagues:

Hyundai Unicorns:
of the 8-team Korean
Baseball Association; they have trained at Bradenton since 1993,
but the Bucs signed a working agreement in 1998 to exchange players and coaching/scouting
information. Two Korean pitchers and a coach were in the Bucs system for 1998.
Financial problems in Korea have put this relationship on hold.

Cecil
Greek's Pirate Page: This is the source for pictures
of Pirates from today and yester-year. Do you have a favorite
Pirate player? There is a good chance you'll find his picture
here. You will find several links to specific pictures on
Cecil's page throughout my Pirates Pages. Thanks Cecil for your
contribution to my Pirates Page.

Matthew K. Blair:
he has a Clemente page and has listed several Pirate teams of their
respective decades. He has added a Pirates Hall of Fame Page which is very good.

Mike
Emeigh's Baseball Page: offers some unique research information on
Situational Offense, Bequeathed Runners, Run Scoring Patterns and several
good baseball links too.

Rory Regan's Pirates History Page:
Rory digs back to the history of the franchise and its best players of each era.
The website is dedicated to Pirates pitcher Babe Adams.

Caleb's Pittsburgh Pirates Page is back
with a collection of music files of famous Pirate/baseball songs from "Beat 'em Bucs" to
"CenterField". Plus, Caleb has notes from numerous ballparks he has visited.

The Pirates Fan-based E-mail List:Subscribe or search
the archives of "the list" at the web interface. Or, send an e-mail message to:
listserv@apple.ease.lsoft.com
with body: subscribe pirates Your Name
You will receive a message back prompting you to confirm your
subscription.
You will be added to a list of around 150 Pirate
fans who trade stories, stats, ideas, questions, answers, and
opinions about the Bucs from across the country. This is a friendly list
and a great forum for the intelligent exchange of ideas about the Pirates.
It is an informal email discussion group which discusses
issues relevant to the Pittsburgh Pirates. List volume is about 10-30
messages daily. One fan said, "I truly enjoy
the insightful, informed, and passionate discussions that abound on
this list." Another person said. "I think you just threw a
life-preserver to a drowning Burghball fan."
Once subscribed, you can send mail to the whole list at: pirates@APPLE.EASE.LSOFT.COM

Real Audio:

The Bucs have joined most of the other MLB teams in offering their game
broadcasts via Real Audio at broadcast.com. Now you can hear the home team announcers
(with pre-game and post game shows), and you can even listen to rebroadcasts on demand.

Winter Ball:Baseball America has
box scores, standings, and League Leaders.
USA Today provides a good
starting point for winter league stats.
The Pirates have numerous players participating in off-season baseball in various leagues:

Florida Instructional League: was reinstituted in 1997 for the
Pirates. Mid-September through October; this league is for 40 players who are young players
or those switching positions. This league is at Pirate City, Bradenton Florida.

Arizona Fall League:
an elite league that started play in 1992; the Bucs generally send 6 (or 7) players each season.
This league is for major league rookies down to top prospects at the AA-level. One Class A player
with outstanding ability could go also. 44 games; generally early Oct-to-mid-Nov with
an additional championship game.
Bucco players in the 2002 AFL with the Phoenix Desert Dogs are:
Pitchers Adrian Burnside (repeating from 2001), Mike Gonzalez (another repeat), and Chris Spurling. Catcher J.R. House
(repeats), and outfielders J.J. Davis and Shawn Garrett round out the Pirate prospects. Pitcher Dan Carrasco will be part of the
"taxi squad". Pitching Coach Scott Lovecamp will be in the AFL for the Phoenix team.
Phoenix hosts prospects from: Twins, Indians, Mets, A's, and Pirates.
Daily
Recaps are at MLB's web site. The Pirates web site promises
weekly updates
You may find some brief game summaries and line scores at
Arizona Central.
Baseball
HQ may provide some additional info. USA
Today provides daily box scores and stats.

California Fall League: this
prospect league was shut down after the 1999 season.
This league replaced the now defunct
Maryland Fall Baseball League (1998), and Hawaiian Baseball League (1993-1997).

Caribbean Baseball Confederation: Generally, Oct-Feb.
The Dominican, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan and Mexican League champions compete
in the Caribbean World Series, which is held annually in early February. Countries rotate
hosting the event.
For 1999, Players with at least 520 At Bats or 180 innings pitched during the regular
season are prevented from
playing winter ball (by the new MLB-winterball agreement). This might affect some of the
popular Caribbean major leaguers from playing for their home team.
Playball provides some overview info on these leagues.
Try the translation service at Alta Vista.
It has been hard to find web information on some of these leagues (most sites are in Spanish),
but here are a few widely gathered pieces of info:

Dominican Baseball League:
The Dominican Winter League is made up of six teams:
Escogido,
Licey,
Estrellas, Aguilas, Nordeste Chickens (formerly the
Gigantes) and
Azucareros (2 teams were shut down for '98-'99 due to
damage from Hurricane Georges, with one still closed in '99-'00). In '99-'00,
Aramis Ramirez and Emil Brown
are on the Licey roster; Abraham Nunez is playing second base, Rob Mackowiak is playing LF,
and Craid Wilson is playing 1B with
Escogido. Aguilas has Wilson Guzman on the pitching staff.
These six teams play a 48-game Regular season, that lasts from late October to late
December. They have a 4-team, 18-game semi-final
round robin playoff starting in January; this determines the two
finalists for a best-of-seven DR champion. Check one of the local papers,
Ultima Hora, for details.

Mexican Pacific League: 68 games; October 15 to December 30.
Jason Boyd is pitching for Hermosillo. Humberto Cota is with Mochis, and Manuel Bernal is
pitching for Obregon.
Culiacan Tomateros.
This is an 8-team league. See
USA Today
for box scores and stats.

Puerto Rico: 50 games; November 3 to early-January.
Ponce De Leones: en espanol;
Arecibo Lobos have an unofficial
site in English (but the team moved to Bayamon in 1999); it might help you to start exploring the PR league.
The San Juan Senators are moving in 2000 to their own ballpark in Carolina (near the airport)
and may be renamed. The Senators had shared Hiram Bithorn Stadium with Santurce.
This is a 6-team league. For '99-'00, Ivan Cruz, Alex Hernandez, Carlos Alvarado, Carlos Rivera,
and Darryl Brinkley are with Ponce. Pirate free agent signee Wil Cordero joined the Mayaguez
roster for the PR Final series.
See the El Nuevo Dia newspaper for
daily coverage. A 16-game round robin, with 4 teams, determines the 2 finalists for the best
of nine championship series in late-January. Check out my report from a
2000 trip to Hiram Bithorn Stadium.